Being a renewable influenced utility grid, the wind integrated hydrothermal system (WHTS) is considered as a future‐proof and contemporary energy system to reduce the dependency on depleting fossil fuels. However, due to intermittent nature of wind energy and complex operational constraints, offering the day‐ahead operation schedule of WHTS with joint awareness of fuel economy and emissions is classified as a complicated multi‐objective optimization problem. The major challenge is to maximize the utilization of clean hydro power to accommodate uncertain wind energy together with reduced dependency on fossils based thermal power. In this context, the paper devises an efficient control and multi‐criteria energy scheduling method, essentially comprised of adaptive repair and volume restriction to maximize the utilization of available hydro power.